Judy Klitsner
Judy Klitsner(born 1957) is a contemporaryBible scholar,author and international speaker. She is a senior faculty member of thePardes Institutefor Jewish Studies in Jerusalem,[1]where she has taught Bible andbiblical exegesisfor more than twenty years.
A disciple of the famous Torah teacherNechama Leibowitz,Klitsner has grown to world acclaim through her writing and teaching of biblical commentary, which weaves together traditional exegesis, modern scholarship, and her own original interpretations that are informed by close readings of the text.
Klitsner lectures widely at synagogues and academic institutions. Venues have includedHarvard University,Brown University,theGraduate Theological UnionatUC Berkeley,Yeshivat Chovevei Torah,Hebrew College,theJewish Theological Seminary of America,theUniversity of Judaism,Drisha,Mechon Hadar,Limmud,JOFA,the92nd Street Y,and theSkirball Center.
Klitsner is the author of many articles[2]and of the book,Subversive Sequels in the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other[3]published in hardcover by theJewish Publication Societyin October 2009 and in softcover byKoren Publishers Jerusalemin January 2011.
Awards
[edit]Subversive Sequels in the Biblereceived a 2009National Jewish Book Awardin the Scholarship category.[4]
Selected works
[edit]- Subversive sequels in the Bible: how biblical stories mine and undermine each other,2008
- Inside-outside: Biblical leaders and their non-Jewish mentors,2017
References
[edit]- ^"Faculty Books".4 February 2015.
- ^Klitsner article on Biblical story of Deborah and Sisera
- ^"Subversive Sequels in the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other"
- ^"Past Winners".Jewish Book Council.Retrieved2020-01-25.
